TORONTO— The German company at the centre of Ontario’s cancelled wind farm is reminding Doug Ford about due process and calling on him to reconsider.

The premier’s new government announced it will enact legislation this summer that cancels a wind farm nearly a decade in the making and also prevent it from suing the government for the eleventh hour cancellation. The project was supposed to start adding electricity to the grid in September.

In an open letter sent at the same time as Thursday’s throne speech wpd AG’s CEO Hartmut Brösamle said the cancelled wind farm puts his company in a “difficult” position.

Referencing Ford’s right to change energy policy, Brösamle ends the letter with “do you think, dear Premier, that it is fair and equitable that a project right before completion is now being ruined retroactively and that our company is suffering serious damage through no fault of its own?”

“Your reconsideration would be greatly appreciated.”

The premier’s office did not provide a comment at the time of publication but Tory House Leader Todd Smith has repeatedly defended the move since it was announced on Tuesday.

“Ratepayers are going to come out way ahead on this,” Smith said Wednesday following repeated questions on what if any costs Ontario would incur for the cancelled contract.

“All of the details are going to be available when the legislation comes out. But unlike the gas plant scandal this is going to be a legislated end to this contract and the government holds that power to legislate the end to this contract,” Smith said. “What it does is immunize the province from any kind of domestic litigation.”

The legislation is expected to be tabled next week as part of the Ford government’s first legislative session.

Most of Canada seems vague on punitive damages. Ottawa citizens were left holding the bag after the cancellation of one of the major transportation projects
Here,…the project is 3 months from completion with millions of decrease costs towards the consumer. We r going to pay over $200 million in punitive damages or face the world courts.
Again, Ontarians shortsightedness and rabid racist bigotry places a “thing” to guide us to a better future. This is so laughable.
Old politicians and old politics with back door deals r bad for the populace but tweaking the rracial bigotry in Canada keeps it in place.
Who r we going to lose?
– doctors, the federal health plan will increase the discrimination in our health plans.
Teachers – their wages r safe (his words) but the opinion and the deterioating conditions of their charges will make stress too high for them.
We need more psychologists and therapists but workload will be too high and burnout rate increase. We choose a middle ages low level politician to see us thru the years of 2020 where suicide thru depression will be the #1 cause of death.
Even our intellectuals suffer severely from racial bigotry and we still believe the conceit.